GRUB, booting, and SW RAID 1+0...

[Paul Lussier]

Hi all,

Has anyone ever set up a SW RAID 1+0 set and successfully booted from
it under Linux?  I have a system with 4 80GB drives, totalling 320GBs
of space.  Of that space, about 300 of it is going to be wasted :)

Uptime and stability is far more important, so I thought I'd play
around with the software RAID stuff again since it's been a while.  I
was thinking of striping mirroring disks A & B and C & D, then
striping across those two sets.

Since there are only 2 controllers in this system, obviously
performance will be heavily impacted by mirroring from the primary to
the secondary on a single controller, but performance isn't an issue
right now.  I'm using this as a test-bed for playing with the raid
stuff to re-familiarize myself with it and try some new wacky things
:)

Any input is welcome !

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Seeya,
Paul "Playing with bleeding-edge software on decaying-edge hardware"